Tag Archives: Ian Paice

Album review: MOONSTONE PROJECT – New Life

Posted on September 25, 2024 by jason

Escape Music [Release date 18.09.24] Moonstone Project is masterminded by guitarist and songwriter Matt Filippini. ‘New Life’ is a re-issue, of sorts, as it sees the Moonstone Project’s 2006 album ‘Time To Take A Stand’, being completely remixed and remastered … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Turning To Crime

Posted on December 1, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

earMusic [Release date 26.11.21] The rock legends’ 22nd studio album and it comes only a year after the critically acclaimed Whoosh (one of the band’s best albums in their 50+ years). Clearly at a loose end or two during the … Continue reading →

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Quick plays: PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE, UNTIL THE SUN, CIRCUS MIND

Posted on May 17, 2021 by GRTR! HQ

VARIOUS Still Wish You Were Here (Cleopatra Records) [Release date 28.05.21] Continuing the theme of “what do rock stars do in Lockdown?”, in this example Cleopatra’s A&R supremo John Lappen has opened his contact book. Unlike many of these offerings … Continue reading →

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Interview: JEFF GAUTIER

Posted on January 9, 2020 by petefeenstra

This is the audio version of Pete Feenstra’s interview with French drumming legend Jeff Gautier including music from his band Bars On Fire and other examples from a 40 year career. The English translation is below. (58:26) Interview: JEFF GAUTIER … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Live In Rome 2013

Posted on December 30, 2019 by jason

Edel/Ear Music [Release date 06.12.19] This series continues and each release never fails to surprise and satisfy. Done in Official Bootleg style, you get a full an unadulterated concert that’s as well recorded as it is performed. A series to … Continue reading →

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Gig review – DEEP PURPLE – Hydro, Glasgow, 22 November 2017

Posted on November 25, 2017 by david.wilson

On the 22nd June 1985 I made a very long trip south, on the oldest bus known to man to stand in a flooded field near Stevenage, to witness the return of Deep Purple mark 2 at Knebworth. It was a … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – inFinite

Posted on May 16, 2017 by GRTR! HQ

earMUSIC [Release date 07.04.17] 2013′s ‘Now What?!’ found Deep Purple in rude good form and backed up by a well received UK tour. With more UK dates in November 2017, inFinite doesn’t quite match the sheer audacity of that album … Continue reading →

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DVD review: DEEP PURPLE – California Jam 1974

Posted on December 7, 2016 by GRTR! HQ

earMUSIC [Release date 09.12.16] I was beginning to think that ‘remastering’ is a marketing ‘con’ and not about bringing consumers a truly superior product. After all, is it really possible to make a sow’s purse out of a pig’s ear … Continue reading →

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Album review: MEN ON THE HILL – M.O.T.H.

Posted on December 14, 2015 by jason

Imagine living in a post-apocalyptic, musical wasteland populated by pretentious jazz-loving “intellectuals” who get out of the bath to take a piss, adore Snorah Jones and listen to a hoaky amateurish local English-language radio station that only plays songs which … Continue reading →

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Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – 02 Arena, London, 3 December 2015

Posted on December 12, 2015 by andynathan

One of the first lessons I ever learned in rock school was it was an (un?)holy British trinity of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple who effectively invented heavy rock, or heavy metal as it was later badged. You … Continue reading →

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Album review: IAN PAICE’S SUNFLOWER SUPERJAM 2012

Posted on February 24, 2015 by jason

earMUSIC [Released 09.03.15] (CD/DVD) The Sunflower Jam was started back in 2006 by Jacky Paice, wife of Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and sister-in-law to the late Jon Lord, as a charity event to raise funds for holistic and non-toxic … Continue reading →

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DVD review: DEEP PURPLE with Orchestra – Live In Verona

Posted on October 23, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Eagle Rock [Release date 30.10.14] Deep Purple and orchestras go back a long way – to 1969 when John Lord composed The Concerto for Group and Orchestra with lyrics written by Ian Gillan and which was first performed by Deep … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Live In Graz 1975

Posted on July 26, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

The Official Deep Purple (Overseas) Live Series earMUSIC [Release date 15.09.14] If you didn’t know the story you may be surprised that less than three months after this recording the Mark III version of Purple split, Blackmore continuing with Rainbow … Continue reading →

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Album review: BERNIE MARSDEN – Shine

Posted on June 30, 2014 by petefeenstra

Provogue [Release date 18.08.14] Bernie Marsden’s ‘Shine’ explores a wide ranging musical horizon including a cleverly updated blues, slick AOR, kick ass boogie, riff driven and twin guitar rock, a steaming bluesy shuffle and a book-ended instrumental. By his own … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Purpendicular (reissue)

Posted on June 21, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Hear No Evil Recordings [Release date 16.06.14] Deep Purple’s current album ‘Now What?!’ was a favourite of 2013, and ‘Purpendicular’ shows its blood line: the very first Purple album with guitarist Steve Morse in 1996. As ever it captures the … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – In Concert ’72 (2012 Mix)

Posted on June 7, 2014 by GRTR! HQ

Parlophone [Release date 16.06.14] The music industry is a great place for recycling. Never more so than in terms of album reissues and one wonders why the powers that be cannot render definitive versions from the start? This BBC recording … Continue reading →

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DVD review: DEEP PURPLE – Perfect Strangers Live

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Yiannis

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Live (DVD)

Eagle Records – Out Now Deep Purple have experienced eight main member reshuffles since they first formed in Hertford back in 1968, however, it has been universally accepted that it is the work of the Mark II line up (Gillan/ … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Live At Montreux 1996 and 2006

Posted on November 1, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Eagle Records [Release date 7.10.13] This packaging of three Deep Purple Montreux appearances is part of a new mid-price series ‘Eagle Classics’. And it’s a great way to catch up on favourite bands, especially if you didn’t shell out earlier … Continue reading →

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Gig review: DEEP PURPLE – Manchester O2 Apollo, 12 October 2013

Posted on October 13, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

He may have disappeared once too often behind the drum riser to what appeared to be a ‘recreation’ area – no doubt with full access to ‘Strictly’ – but Ian Gillan is not quite ready to join the pipe and … Continue reading →

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Album review: DEEP PURPLE – Slaves And Masters

Posted on August 15, 2013 by GRTR! HQ

Hear No Evil Recordings [Release date 22.07.13] Slaves And Masters might be remembered as the album that split the Purple fans (and some critics) in the early-1990s, launched in an era that spawned albums such as Tyketto’s ‘Don’t Come Easy … Continue reading →